Example sentences of "before [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 2 | Evidence has been put before me of the most unusual arrangement come to , in relation to a possible ability of the parents to buy the property at half the sitting tenant valuation . |
| 3 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 4 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 5 | Came up before me on the bench once . |
| 6 | The small flock of eight flitted before me along the hedgerow , drawing my attention to a white post in a bed of slender St John 's wort and wood sage . |
| 7 | As I watched , the whole world seemed to swim away before me in a mist — Silver , the birds above , the tall Spyglass hill . |
| 8 | Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies : thou anointest my head with oil ; my cup runneth over . |
| 9 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 10 | Looming before me in the darkness is my brother Ludo , a baseball bat dangling from his hand . |
| 11 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 12 | The scene lay before me like the field of a medieval tourney : banners and bunting and ladies in jewel-bright colours . |
| 13 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 14 | Conciliation officers are very useful for advising employers of the tasks before them at a tribunal hearing . |
| 15 | That 's the man he is , ’ said Adam abruptly , and strode before them at a furious pace towards the guest-house , pursued by the pain he could not outdistance . |
| 16 | Hence I keep their captain before them for a show of mastery . |
| 17 | Their status will be reduced to that of assembly-line workers , required to bolt their prescribed parts on to the pupils that pass before them on the conveyor belt . |
| 18 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 19 | ‘ Brown as a berry ’ , his clothes worn out , and his hair in need of cutting , he appeared before them as a ‘ dreadful figure ’ , though one whose torrential eloquence was unabated . |
| 20 | All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated . |
| 21 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 22 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 23 | The high walls of the Castelo de Sao Jorge lifted above them as they worked their way through a maze of narrow alleys and then , as they came into a small square in front of a church , Devlin emerged from an alley and crossed the cobbles before them towards a cafe . |
| 24 | Warming to this theme , Ferril suggests that the ‘ egg of life ’ is symbolized by the oval inflated bladder of pigskin and by the oval-shaped outdoor arenas to which worshippers flock in their thousands in search of ‘ an outlet from sexual frustration ’ which they hope to find in the ‘ masochism and sadism ’ displayed before them by a highly-schooled ‘ priesthood of young men ’ . |
| 25 | The courts do not , of course , monitor management on their own initiative , but only when an issue is brought before them by a suitably qualified plaintiff . |
| 26 | Parliamentary assemblies are essentially meetings of elected representatives of the people whose purposes include considering the policy proposals put before them by the executive , sometimes ( though to a much lesser extent ) initiating policy proposals of their own , examining and calling to account those responsible for the initiation and implementation of policy , and giving approval and legitimacy to the actions of the executive and bureaucracy . |
| 27 | England 's fortunes under Mike Gatting had been varied , losing relentlessly at home , carrying all before them in a triumphal tour of Australia , narrowly losing a World Cup final they should have won and then having their captain , under great provocation , address naughty words to a Pakistani umpire . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the Japanese forces had swept all before them in a huge arc some 4000 kilometres from Tokyo : Malaya , Thailand , Hong Kong , Singapore , much of Burma , and the Dutch East Indies fell by March 942 . |
| 29 | The red-brown tentacles of London 's suburbs had at last been shaken off , and the chequered autumn landscape , multi-textured as a cloth collage , unrolled before them in a changing pattern of brown , green and gold , leading them on to Cambridge . |
| 30 | Then they were in the Circle , and the Dale opened out before them in a vast , dazzling whiteness , powdery snow blowing in clouds off the summits of the hills . |